Taillade
Joan Mitchell
American, 1925–1992
1990
A monumental oil-on-canvas diptych in which Joan Mitchell uses layered, gestural brushwork and color to suggest the memory and feeling of a landscape rather than a literal view.
Up close the painting overwhelms with energetic vertical strokes of purple, green, and red set against luminous whites—drips, scumbles, and scraped passages create a restless, wind-tousled rhythm that pulls you into its scale.
As a late work by a key figure of postwar abstraction, Taillade extends Abstract Expressionism into a more lyrical, landscape-inflected language, demonstrating how large-scale, color-driven gesture can carry memory and emotion.
Medium
Oil on canvas, two panels
Dimensions
8' 6 1/4" x 13' 1 1/2" (259.8 x 400 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Galerie Jean Fournier, Enid A. Haupt Fund, and Helen Acheson Bequest (by exchange)
Accession
365.1990.a-b
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